While that might be true, the five whys is notorious for slipping into a destructive "you/I suck and firing you/I solves the problem for good and I believe it makes everyone absolutely happy" style of false conclusions.
Reportedly Toyota has organizational mitigations for that problem or reportedly the working culture there isn't so great after all. The bottom line is, it's a double edged sword to say the very least.
Hell, people even legislated the value of PI that one time.